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BETO: MORE JOHN KERRY THAN JOHN KENNEDY

No matter what label you choose to use, the description is the same: all-powerful big government purporting to act in the best interests of the people using elite experts who know best how we should allocate our resources and live our lives. What they don’t say is that this system of governance does not work and has led to the death and suffering of millions of innocent people. That this time it will be different is little more than a semantic ruse because of four structural flaws in the proposition.

One, the elites begin to exert more and more force on the populace to maintain their leadership position when their grand schemes of centrally-planned economies and governance fail.

Two, political power is gained and maintained by creating and managing scarcity and not, as we see in capitalism, growing and expanding resources to accommodate more people.

Three, the solution to achieving a successful managed outcome is not Malthusian population control, anti-industrialization, and wealth re-distribution.

And four, there is no accommodation for those who have a different view of world governance using a religion-state model and constitute approximately 25% of the world’s population.

“Beto,” the Hispanic-nickname for Robert Francis O'Rourke, does not know if he is a progressive…

Beto O'Rourke & Democrats: 'I Don't Know' If I'm a Progressive

Representative Beto O’Rourke said Friday that he does not know if he is a progressive, and that he is “not big on labels.”

“I don’t know,” O’Rourke said when asked whether he could accurately be described as progressive. “I’m just, as you may have seen and heard over the course of the campaign, I’m not big on labels. I don’t get all fired up about party or classifying or defining people based on a label or a group. I’m for everyone.”

[OCS: This is the same line of bullpucky used by former President Barack Obama and former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to describe themselves as “post partisan” politicians that are willing to serve all of the people. In both cases, both men were leftists and shunned input from both the moderate and conservative Republicans. Even though Schwarzenegger ran as a Republican, it was clear from the first day that he was governing as a Kennedy-like Democrat, even down to the sexual infidelity.]

The former Senate candidate, who lost in November to incumbent conservative Ted Cruz, defended his record of striking a delicate balance between a Democratic party moving increasingly leftward and the needs of constituents from traditionally conservative Texas.

[OCS: Like all politicians, Beto will say or do anything to gain and maintain political power. He will walk the tightrope of a leftist running in a conservative district until elected and then veer wildly left if the opportunity to advance to the national stage appears viable.]

“I am who I am,” O’Rourke said. “I laid out my vision for Texas and this country over the last two years without taking a single poll to find out where people were on the issues or how popular it was or how it would track in this community or that — said the same thing in Amarillo that I said in Houston, Texas, so I mean, go figure.”

[OCS: I wonder how he knows what his constituents want or think? But like most politicians, he simply follows the dictates of big-money, politically-connected special interests who provide campaign funding, voter support, and media attention in return for unnamed favors to be granted after a successful election.]

As he considers a 2020 presidential run, O’Rourke has been criticized both for being too progressive and for being insufficiently left-wing. Some liberals have criticized his acceptance of donations from oil-industry workers and worry that he will not fit in with a Democratic party that is rapidly shifting to the left. Conservatives, meanwhile, have decried his support of Medicare for All and left-leaning policies on immigration, climate change, drug legalization, and the military. <Source>

Let us look at the issues…

** Medicare for All – this is a misnomer, it would be single-payer government control of the entire healthcare industry, nationalization if you will, under the guise of an Omni-powerful Medicaid welfare plan. Medicare, employer-assisted insurance programs, and private doctors would all be a thing of the past. Only the wealthy or politically-connected would receive a guarantee of superior healthcare under a system managed by bureaucrats and administered by clerks. Physicians and other medical personnel would become government employees dependent on panels, commissions, and politics to set their reimbursement rates. Outstanding performance would no longer be rewarded and mediocrity would become routine.

** Military – the progressives cannot be trusted with the defense of America and Americans. Recently we saw President Obama weaken the military, provide aid and comfort to our enemies, and disparage and disadvantage our allies. The result was a disaster in Libya, Lebanon, Syria, and elsewhere in the world.

** Immigration – the open border crowd seeks to dilute the American culture of individualism in favor of collectivism and a reliance on government entitlements. One look at California, the single-party “progressive” state where much of the state’s revenue comes from the capital gains of billionaires as they cash out their over-priced shares before the bubble bursts. One need only to look no further than the employment and housing impact on minority citizens to see what illegal aliens have wrought with their illiteracy, poverty, disease, and crime. Even beneficial immigration can be overwhelming and burdensome on our limited social safety nets.

** Drug legalization – the “hippie dream” of unlimited recreational drugs is already having an impact in Colorado, affecting productivity and an increase in accidents.

** Climate change – the science would be further subverted by politics and as the progressives point out, we need to abandon capitalism in favor of socialism to save the planet from the coming catastrophe that only exists in the silicon-silliness of flawed models being fed stage-managed data to produce media-worthy scary stories.

And lest you not forget…

** Gun control – which defies the common sense that tells you that criminals, crazies, and terrorists do not respect or obey the law or other social norms. By disarming the law-abiding citizen, not only do you create larger victim pools who will be totally dependent on government to protect them (and left begging for mercy), but gut the only provision in the U.S. Constitution that speaks to the ultimate redress to governmental tyranny – the Second Amendment. The progressives are the ones who coddle criminals, accept plea bargains on serious gun-related charges, want to abandon the death penalty and continue to release criminals back into our communities.

Why Beto is dangerous …

Poll: Beto Leads in Dem White House Hunt

“In the latest MoveOn.org poll of its hard-left members, failed U.S. Senate candidate Robert O’Rourke is coming out ahead of former Obama Vice President Joe Biden for White House favorites. In his support for gun regulation and increased federal largesse, O’Rourke clocked in at 15.6 percent ahead of Biden’s 14.9 percent and self-described socialist Bernie Sanders’ 13.1 percent, but it’s an eternity until actual votes are cast, and at least 29 percent of those polled indicated they’re undecided.O’Rourke has also fulfilled the far-Left fantasies of a politician who will pledge to abolish ICE, ban AR-15s, and push the Leftist fantasy of single payer healthcare. He’s called for impeachment of President Trumpas well.” <Source>

Bottom line…

I don’t care what name Beto uses or how Beto defines himself. In Barack Obama, we have seen what an articulate, telegenic, and charismatic progressive can do to our country. Enough with the cotton-candy and craziness. It is time for tough politicians to stand-up for their country.

We are so screwed.

-- steve

"The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." -- Marcus Aurelius

“A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves, and traitors are not victims... but accomplices” -- George Orwell

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BETO: MORE JOHN KERRY THAN JOHN KENNEDY

No matter what label you choose to use, the description is the same: all-powerful big government purporting to act in the best interests of the people using elite experts who know best how we should allocate our resources and live our lives. What they don’t say is that this system of governance does not work and has led to the death and suffering of millions of innocent people. That this time it will be different is little more than a semantic ruse because of four structural flaws in the proposition.

One, the elites begin to exert more and more force on the populace to maintain their leadership position when their grand schemes of centrally-planned economies and governance fail.

Two, political power is gained and maintained by creating and managing scarcity and not, as we see in capitalism, growing and expanding resources to accommodate more people.

Three, the solution to achieving a successful managed outcome is not Malthusian population control, anti-industrialization, and wealth re-distribution.

And four, there is no accommodation for those who have a different view of world governance using a religion-state model and constitute approximately 25% of the world’s population.

“Beto,” the Hispanic-nickname for Robert Francis O'Rourke, does not know if he is a progressive…

Beto O'Rourke & Democrats: 'I Don't Know' If I'm a Progressive

Representative Beto O’Rourke said Friday that he does not know if he is a progressive, and that he is “not big on labels.”

“I don’t know,” O’Rourke said when asked whether he could accurately be described as progressive. “I’m just, as you may have seen and heard over the course of the campaign, I’m not big on labels. I don’t get all fired up about party or classifying or defining people based on a label or a group. I’m for everyone.”

[OCS: This is the same line of bullpucky used by former President Barack Obama and former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to describe themselves as “post partisan” politicians that are willing to serve all of the people. In both cases, both men were leftists and shunned input from both the moderate and conservative Republicans. Even though Schwarzenegger ran as a Republican, it was clear from the first day that he was governing as a Kennedy-like Democrat, even down to the sexual infidelity.]

The former Senate candidate, who lost in November to incumbent conservative Ted Cruz, defended his record of striking a delicate balance between a Democratic party moving increasingly leftward and the needs of constituents from traditionally conservative Texas.

[OCS: Like all politicians, Beto will say or do anything to gain and maintain political power. He will walk the tightrope of a leftist running in a conservative district until elected and then veer wildly left if the opportunity to advance to the national stage appears viable.]

“I am who I am,” O’Rourke said. “I laid out my vision for Texas and this country over the last two years without taking a single poll to find out where people were on the issues or how popular it was or how it would track in this community or that — said the same thing in Amarillo that I said in Houston, Texas, so I mean, go figure.”

[OCS: I wonder how he knows what his constituents want or think? But like most politicians, he simply follows the dictates of big-money, politically-connected special interests who provide campaign funding, voter support, and media attention in return for unnamed favors to be granted after a successful election.]

As he considers a 2020 presidential run, O’Rourke has been criticized both for being too progressive and for being insufficiently left-wing. Some liberals have criticized his acceptance of donations from oil-industry workers and worry that he will not fit in with a Democratic party that is rapidly shifting to the left. Conservatives, meanwhile, have decried his support of Medicare for All and left-leaning policies on immigration, climate change, drug legalization, and the military. <Source>

Let us look at the issues…

** Medicare for All – this is a misnomer, it would be single-payer government control of the entire healthcare industry, nationalization if you will, under the guise of an Omni-powerful Medicaid welfare plan. Medicare, employer-assisted insurance programs, and private doctors would all be a thing of the past. Only the wealthy or politically-connected would receive a guarantee of superior healthcare under a system managed by bureaucrats and administered by clerks. Physicians and other medical personnel would become government employees dependent on panels, commissions, and politics to set their reimbursement rates. Outstanding performance would no longer be rewarded and mediocrity would become routine.

** Military – the progressives cannot be trusted with the defense of America and Americans. Recently we saw President Obama weaken the military, provide aid and comfort to our enemies, and disparage and disadvantage our allies. The result was a disaster in Libya, Lebanon, Syria, and elsewhere in the world.

** Immigration – the open border crowd seeks to dilute the American culture of individualism in favor of collectivism and a reliance on government entitlements. One look at California, the single-party “progressive” state where much of the state’s revenue comes from the capital gains of billionaires as they cash out their over-priced shares before the bubble bursts. One need only to look no further than the employment and housing impact on minority citizens to see what illegal aliens have wrought with their illiteracy, poverty, disease, and crime. Even beneficial immigration can be overwhelming and burdensome on our limited social safety nets.

** Drug legalization – the “hippie dream” of unlimited recreational drugs is already having an impact in Colorado, affecting productivity and an increase in accidents.

** Climate change – the science would be further subverted by politics and as the progressives point out, we need to abandon capitalism in favor of socialism to save the planet from the coming catastrophe that only exists in the silicon-silliness of flawed models being fed stage-managed data to produce media-worthy scary stories.

And lest you not forget…

** Gun control – which defies the common sense that tells you that criminals, crazies, and terrorists do not respect or obey the law or other social norms. By disarming the law-abiding citizen, not only do you create larger victim pools who will be totally dependent on government to protect them (and left begging for mercy), but gut the only provision in the U.S. Constitution that speaks to the ultimate redress to governmental tyranny – the Second Amendment. The progressives are the ones who coddle criminals, accept plea bargains on serious gun-related charges, want to abandon the death penalty and continue to release criminals back into our communities.

Why Beto is dangerous …

Poll: Beto Leads in Dem White House Hunt

“In the latest MoveOn.org poll of its hard-left members, failed U.S. Senate candidate Robert O’Rourke is coming out ahead of former Obama Vice President Joe Biden for White House favorites. In his support for gun regulation and increased federal largesse, O’Rourke clocked in at 15.6 percent ahead of Biden’s 14.9 percent and self-described socialist Bernie Sanders’ 13.1 percent, but it’s an eternity until actual votes are cast, and at least 29 percent of those polled indicated they’re undecided.O’Rourke has also fulfilled the far-Left fantasies of a politician who will pledge to abolish ICE, ban AR-15s, and push the Leftist fantasy of single payer healthcare. He’s called for impeachment of President Trumpas well.” <Source>

Bottom line…

I don’t care what name Beto uses or how Beto defines himself. In Barack Obama, we have seen what an articulate, telegenic, and charismatic progressive can do to our country. Enough with the cotton-candy and craziness. It is time for tough politicians to stand-up for their country.